Cisco Unified Computing System Manager

Cisco Unified Computing System Manager provides the unified management of all program and hardware components within Cisco UCS. This solution manages a set of server chassis and resources of thousands of virtual machines.

Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) is a universal approach to creation of computing systems and a cloud platform. Solutions based on UCS allow to create uniform architecture for all DPC, including computing server resources, network equipment for access to LAN/SAN network  and also provide means of full-scale control and control of servers in physical and virtual environments, simplifying transition to cloud computing. Integration of systems into unified effective environment allows to reduce the cost of services of DF Cloud, to increase flexibility and performance of information systems, providing ample opportunities for increase  in business performance in general.

Increase in efficiency

Thanks to application of the uniform, built-in system on a basis the politician and friendly ecosystem approach, Cisco UCS Manager helps to cut down management and administrative expenses.

Increase in flexibility

Cisco UCS Manager supports automation of data processing centers that helps to increase operational flexibility and scalability, at the same time reducing risk. It provides management on a basis the politician with templates of service and its profiles. Cisco UCS Manager facilitates load of physical and virtual servers as a part of Cisco UCS, promoting consolidation of servers and flexibility of execution of workloads bleyd-servers or servers of rack execution.

Control improvement

Integration of Cisco UCS Manager with the leading industry solutions of systems management supports the operating processes, helps to implement skills of IT personnel and tools. The open interface XML API provides 9000 points of integration for simplification of specialized developments and higher achievements in systems management.

Features and advantages

• The uniform built-in control interface integrating servers, networks and access to storages
• Management on a basis the politician and models, profiles of service, capable to improve maneuverability also reduce risk
• Auto detection of the equipment for accounting and management of system components which are added or replaced
• The open XML API allowing to facilitate integration of instruments of systems management of third-party developers
• Administration on the basis of roles

2016: Cisco UCS Manager v3.1

The user interface on the basis of HTML5 was added to versions of Cisco UCS Manager v3.1. Customers for years used UCS Manager with the interface based on Java therefore it was necessary to make so that they did not experience difficulties upon transition from one interface to another. Our developers rewrote all screens on HTML 5 so that differences with similar the screens written on Java, practically not. The arrangement, colors, icons and the text are almost identical, and users do not experience difficulties upon transition to the new version (examples of the new UCS Manager graphical interface based on HTML 5 are shown below).

Unify and simplify

Cisco achieved progress with series B products, and now many customers expand application of UCS, developing models of other series. To facilitate them a task of management, we unified the latest version of UCS Manager r3.1, having created uniform base of versions. It will simplify deployment and upgrade of UCS Manager on places. In the course of consolidation of the code we held comprehensive testing on all UCS models in different options that allowed to provide quality and uniformity and also support of additional platforms. At the same time we will continue support and upgrade of UCS Manager 2.2 for those customers who use, generally UCS servers of the B and C series and who prefer to carry out upgrade gradually, entering such small changes as support of new servers in the operating environment.

Scaling and simplicity

UCS management the politician on the massive distributed configurations allows to implement remote operation, automation and execution. The new version of software of UCS Central v1.4 supports up to 10 thousand servers now, i.e. more than it is more vpoltor of time, than the previous versions. Besides in addition to increase in number of devices we aimed also to simplify use of software. In the previous version of UCS Central the user interface on the basis of HTML5 was added, and now we entered a number of simplifications and increased efficiency of use. Functions of search and viewing are improved, possibilities of the panel board and inventory are expanded, the KVM loader is unified, changes are made to reports generation. All this clearly demonstrates the roller placed here.

Except ergonomic improvements in UCS Central the effective management of politicians thanks to the following additions is increased:

• advanced packet of the main built-in software;
• politicians of the equipment — search of the chassis, etc.;
• politicians of vNIC adapters there is USNic, VMQ, CDN, etc.;
• politicians of adapters there is PVLAN, RDMA for SMB Direct, etc.;
• DWH with direct connection (Direct Attached Storage).

These improvements give an ability to manage at accumulation of scale, simplifying at the same time accomplishment of routine tasks. Besides, we implemented poserverny licensing (Smart Licensing) for UCS Central, having increased availability of software when scaling by the customer of the operating configuration.